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RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries (in a self-contained format called a "gem"), a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.

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gem vs apt-get in a server environment

Where should I draw the line between using apt-get and gem when setting up a server to host ruby on rails with passenger + apache? Does it even matter? It feels wrong to mix package management ...
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How to setup Ruby and RubyGems on CentOS?

I have a CentOS 5.5 (64-bit server) I'd like to install Ruby 1.8.7 (current patch level) and RubyGems What's the best way to go about this? disclaimer: I'm a CentOS noob
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How do you uninstall the rubygem application?

We have installed the rubygem application (version 1.3.6) on a Debian system by downloading the rubygems tar.gz archive and running the setup.rb command. What is the best way to uninstall this ...
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How does `sudo` search the path for executables?

I am using rubygems (1.3.7) with gems that require root privileges on Ubuntu 10.10. When I compare my setup to an ubuntu 9.10 with rubygems 1.3.6 installation, I see the following difference in gem ...
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maintenance/installation of ruby gems/ruby on rails on Linux in general and Gentoo

I am currently looking into Ruby/Ruby on Rails as an alternative to Python/Django. My main problem is that it is rather unclear what the best practices are when it comes to installing Ruby gems and/or ...
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RVM not picking up /etc/gemrc

in a system wide RVM .... heres my /etc/gemrc --- gem:--no-ri --no-rdoc heres the system gem env GEM PATHS: - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1 - /home/${USER}/.gem/ruby/1.9.1 GEM ...
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check which version of rubygems installed on ubuntu?

How do I check which version of rubygems i have installed on my ubuntu box?
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ActiveAdmin User management

I am new to Ruby on Rails. I am using ActiveAdmin for administration purposes. I have Googled a lot about "how to manage admin users" for example, changing default username password from ...
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ruby on rails gitorious setup on ubuntu

Ive been trying to install gitorious for a while now which required ruby and rails etc. Ive finally got rails pages serving but cant finish the installation of gitorious because the gem version is too ...
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Memcache on ubuntu server lucid and ruby 1.9.1

I'm trying to set up a memcache server on the above setup. I'm getting the following error: /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:443:in ...
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Is removing ~/.rvm/ all I needed to perform a clean re-install

I have installed ruby and gems under ~/.rvm/, now I want to re-install all the stuffs agaain. Are there any modifications/links live outside of this folder? So, by just removing the folder ~/.rvm/ is ...
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segfault in timeout.rb using gem with ruby enterprise edition (ree-1.8.7) [closed]

I'm attempting to install a gem on my new Ubuntu 12.10 (GNU/Linux 3.6.5-x86_64-linode28 x86_64) server, and I'm getting a segfault in timeout.rb . I've installed rvm, and ree, and getting this error ...
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Installing Mysql Ruby gem on 64-bit CentOS

I have a problem installing mysql ruby gem on 64bit CentOS machine. [jacekb@vitaidealn ~]$ uname -a Linux vitaidealn.local 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 18:51:06 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 ...
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How to verify PostgreSQL 9 has installed correctly on a CentOS server?

I'm trying to install the PG (postgres) gem on a CentoOS server, but it keeps saying Postgres is too old, even though I have upgraded it to 9.1.3 (as per the instructions here ...
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Using gcc instead of SUNWspro cc in ruby mkmf for yajl on Solaris 10

How do I get mkmf to use gcc instead of /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc on Solaris 10? I am trying to install chef using gem install chef. It is failing with: Building native extensions. This could take a ...
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Error 302 when installing rake gem

i try to install rake on my clean lenny server, i get the following error: Updating installed gems ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) bad response Found 302 ...
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zlib error on gem install rails after rvm version switch

(Debian squeeze) rvm version: 1.10.0 I have just installed ruby 1.9.2-p290 using "rvm install 1.9.2" and made it default. However, I am getting this error when trying to install rails using rubygems. ...
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Trouble installing Heroku taps gem using RVM

I tried to install the taps gem on my rvm, but got the following result: larson:~ larson$ rvm gem install taps Successfully installed taps-0.3.23 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for ...
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Ruby 1.8.7 on Plesk 9.5.4

I'm trying to get Ruby 1.8.7 installed on Plesk 9.5.4. I'm currently running 1.8.6 but gem requires a newer version of Ruby to be installed: /opt/ruby/bin/gem update --system Updating RubyGems ...
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How to install mysql gem under OS X

When installing the ruby mysql gem by doing: sudo gem install mysql Subsequent rails migrations still fail, with a message like: $ rake db:migrate (in /Users/guy/code/project) rake aborted! ...
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How can I uninstall software from an RHEL 5 system?

I installed Rubygems 1.3.4 on an RHEL 5 system. The way you install that is to download source and run setup.rb. I did not find a package for it through yum list available. Now I'd like to uninstall ...
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ArgumentError (invalid date) on redmine

Have installed redmine on ubuntu 10.04 LTS but when I add quotes or comments to an issue I get this error: ArgumentError (invalid date): /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:752:in `civil' ...
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When you have a server and don't use RVM, do you sudo gem install or just gem install?

When you set up a Linux server with Ruby on Rails on it, and you're not using RVM, is the best practice to sudo gem install [gem] or gem install [gem]. I'm using the second approach, and storing my ...
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gem mirror segfaulting

I'm trying to create rubygems mirror on my VDS doing the following: $ gem mirror $ gem generate_index -d /home/rubygems/mirror The problem that each time I run first command ruby segfaults with ...
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How best to automatically deal with multiple site_ruby locations?

Is there a way to automatically append to $: variable in ruby to account for additional site_ruby locations? Ruby is installed in /usr/local/ and using gem_install will properly install the new ruby ...
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Why won't ruby recognize Haml under ubuntu64 while using jekyll static blog generator?

I have been trying, quite unsuccessfully, to run henrik's fork of the jekyll static blog generator on Ubuntu 64-bit. I just can't seem to figure this out and I've tried a bunch of different things. ...
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cannot load such file — OpenSSL (LoadError)

I'm having an issue with an uncooperative EC2 Ubuntu 10.04 4 LTS instance. I'm trying to install a few prerequisites for a Ruby web app which has the following dependencies: require 'rubygems' ...
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Mac terminal unix questions. Trying to install showoff.io

I installed the gem according to the instructions at showoff.io, but when I try to run show 8888 it doesn't work and I get -bash: show: command not found In their faq, they mention running gem ...
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Installing gem MySQL failed

I'm installing mysql gem on Amazon AMI 2010.11.1 and I'm having the next problem: # gem install mysql Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing mysql: ...
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RPM Package a ruby project

I want to package a ruby program that I get from git into a RPM package. I have at my disposition a build server and a production server (Same OS / Same Arch). As most ruby project, mine does have ...
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sudo ./starling start works well but sudo service starling start fails

sudo ./starling start works well but sudo service starling start fails $ sudo ./starling start * Starting Starling Server... [ OK ] $ sudo ./starling stop * Stop Starling ...
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Recommended way to install rubygems [closed]

There are server way to install rubygems Using apt-get: apt-get install rubygems1.8 Using rvm: bash -s stable < <(curl -s ...
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Phusion Passenger without RVM

Usually I use RVM + Passenger for my rails applications. Recently, however, I needed to use Passenger without RVM. And I'm confused about gem location. What's the location of gems that Passenger ...
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-bash: /usr/bin/ruby: No such file or directory

I have installed ruby 1.9.2 on my centos server as per this tutorial - http://blog.jeffcosta.com/2010/09/10/7-steps-to-rails-on-centos/ It says that it should be installed to the following locations: ...
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RubyGems: sqlite3 too old, and no sudo

I have an account on a server that is not a super user. Because of this I've used RVM to install Ruby, and I've also installed a few gems. However, the sqlite3-ruby gem does not want to install, ...
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Installing Redmine on bluehost

I'm installing redmine on a bluehost server, and thanks to scripts like this one, most of everything is covered (except the RAILS_ENV=production rake config/initializers/session_store.rb step). ...
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Passenger “Missing the Rails 2.3.4 gem” after Apache restart

I have a rails app running on passenger/apache 2.2.3/RHEL. Everything was working fine until I had to restart Apache. Once I did that, I got the following message: Missing the Rails 2.3.4 gem. Please ...
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gltail “Missing gem net-ssh”

I'm attempting to get gltail set up on my local system to monitor logs remotely. I've got all the dependencies installed, but when I go to run gltail ... ./gl_tail configfile ../config.yaml I get ...
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RubyGem installation can't find header files

I'm running Ruby 1.9.3 on CentOS 5.3. I installed it by compiling Ruby 1.9.3 from source, along with libyaml. I'm also using rbenv to manage versions, so I placed the compiled installation in ...
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Vagrant - Unable to up instance due to “librarian” not found (even though it's installed)

Quite a strange problem I'm having, basically I type "vagrant up" and I'm immediately presented with: Gem "Librarian" was not found. Try running `vagrant gem install librarian --no-ri --no-rdoc` Of ...
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Nerdtree, Rake 'require' cannot load file error

Gents, When trying to install NERDTree, I get the following error, suggestions? Running from an AWS Amazon linux ami: drwxrwxr-x 2 ec2-user ec2-user 4096 Apr 2 10:33 autoload drwxrwxr-x 2 ...
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Everytime I run gem list I get error: can't convert Regexp into String

I'm not sure why my DS keeps giving me this error when trying to simply list all the gems I have installed. I have successfully installed ruby on my DS, and a few gems, but now when I do gem list I ...
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How do I completely remove all Ruby gems?

I am trying to completely remove my Ruby and Rails installation. After uninstalling Ruby with apt-get remove ruby1.9.1 I see that all the Ruby stuff like ruby, rake and irb from "/usr/bin" was ...
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How to improve ruby gems installation speed [closed]

Every time I install a software using ruby gems it take me server minutes to install a single gems, (as compare to install package using apt). Are there any way to improve the speed?
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Error installing new rails version. Failed to build gem native extension

I am trying to build my first ruby on rails app using the following guide (http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/a-demo-app#code-demo_gemfile_sqlite_version_redux) and have run into a few obstacles. ...
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Dependency issues while installing curl-devel

I'm trying to run the passenger-install-apache2-module so I can install Redmine on CentOS 5.8, but passenger-install-apache2-module tells me I need Curl development headers with SSL support, which it ...
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how to point rubygems to use ruby 1.9.1?

[Debian squeeze] It has been surprisingly difficult to find an answer for this. I had ruby v1.9.1 installed (/usr/bin/ruby1.9.1), but after I then installed rubygems, it also installed ruby1.8 ...
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gem list GEMNAME doesn't return all installed versions?

i use rvm on my webserver. when i use gem list GEMNAME, it doesn't show my all installed version of the gem I'm looking for. But when I look into gems in the /usr/lib/rvm dir, it lists all other ...
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Unicorn installation error on Debian 5

I am running ruby1.9 on Debian 5, and did not manage to install 'unicorn' with rubygems. I got this error and do not really know how to solve it. Do you have any idea of the possible root cause ? ...
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Sqlite3-ruby installation issue

I'm trying to install sqlite3-ruby gem (or as it's now called, simply sqlite3) and whenever I run gem install sqlite3 it spits this out Building native extensions. This could take a ...

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